Crafty Love SMASH

I have a couple of favorite brands I just adore for crafting so I decided to make a quick page.  I cut out the icons and samples from a magazine, then added a little blurb about what and why I love those products.  It's not fancy and most is quick notes, but I will have it to remind me of my favorites.  Thanks for looking!  April

 

Nothing Gold SMASH

This is the first of my favorite poems by Robert Frost.  I loved Nothing Gold Can Stay from the first time I read it in The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton in middle school.  It's been 25 years and he is still my all-time favorite poet.  I will be working on SMASH pages for two other poems as well as one dedicated to the man.  Can you guess my two other favorite poems?  (Hint: one was made popular again in a recent book and movie.)

This page was made by adding a page removed from the green SMASH folio, then adding it to the current book with washi tape.  I ran the page through my printer using Batik Regular font.  I used CTMH's Brown Bag ink with SU's retired Season of Friendship for the tree.  The leaves are stamped in Lucky Limeade and Versamark with gold embossing powder.  For the background, I used SU's retired Extreme Elements with Tim Holtz's Distress Inks in Frayed Burlap, Tea Dye, and Vintage Photo.  I also used those inks to ink the edges of the finished page.  Last, I used Caramel Latte and Spun Sugar Smooch Spritz on the page.  I am debating about adding some orange and red leaves, but like the effect for now.  Thanks for looking!  April

Percy Jackson SMASH (In Progress)

This is for TGF's Farm Fresh Friday Anything Goes challenge.
I am still working on it, as I am still working on finding pics or treasures (like coins, book covers, etc), but wanted to get what I have finished posted.  I found this fab pic of a Camp Half-Blood map online and the sign is from a Percy-themed party on Pinterest.  The sneaker and small library cards are from Rebecca at Uprintables.  I used some feathers that escaped from a pillow and a brad to make the flying shoe.  I used a page that I removed from another part of the book, using washi tape to attach, to make a triple page layout.

The characters are from TGF, with a little digital tweeking from me.  All characters are colored in copic markers.  First is Tyson (WS Joseph).  I enlarged him, then erased one eye and moved the other to the middle, before making it bigger.  Next is Annabeth (WS Audrey).  I changed the tongue sticking out to a smile and used Dalek font from dafont.com to write on her shirt.  Percy took some extra work.  His head is Mer Ian and the body is WS Flirty Edward.  I copied the left side of his shirt, flipped the image and moved to the right.  I also added a collar for a tee under the open shirt.  I found an image of Riptide (Anaklusmos) online and shrunk it to the needed size.  Last, but not least is Grover (WS Logan).  He was a rubber stamp and I simply drew in the horn sticking out from under the hoodie. 


close-up of Hermes shoe

close-up of (l-r) Grover, Percy, Annabeth, Tyson

So there you have it.  Maybe I will post new pics once the whole thing is done.  Thanks for looking!  April

Thanks Coach

This is for My Favorite Things challenge #134.  I decided to use my new Jersey Die-namics set to make a thank you for my daughter's lacrosse coach. 

The base is retired SU Yo Yo Yellow with layers of Basic Black and designer paper I printed myself.  I wanted to use the school mascot so I found an image online, then shrunk it down and pasted it multiple times on the word doc before printing.  I also used a doily and some leftover emboss resist banners from Heidi Swapp, sprayed with Tinsel then embellishing with mini nail heads.  The jersey is paper pieced in the school colors and embossed in yellow, before being popped up with dimensionals.  Super simple and really fast to assemble.  Thanks for looking!  April

snowman ornament

This is for Tiddly Inks Design Team Call.  I used the snowman freebie image (found here) that was recently posted and colored it with copic.  I played around with my photo program and flipped the image so that I could use this as a two-sided ornament.  I also wanted a lot of dimension, so I reproduced the image several times so I could cut it into layers.  In total, each side has four layers.  Finished, there are four carrot layers, three head layers, two scarf layers, and one base.  It is all layered with dimensionals.  I also added a little sheen with the Spica Stardust pen on the scarf and the Sukura Stardust gel pen on the carrot nose.  The image is mounted on a Nestabilities circle that is mounted on the lacy circle.  I cut the cardstock base three layers thick to give it some stability.  The sentiment is from SU's Petite Pairs and is stamped in Jet Black Staz-On. 


angled to show layers



angled to show layers on both sides




image on reverse side

Be sure to drop by the Tiddly Inks site to check out the other DT entries.  Thanks for looking!  April